Discourse on the smallpox and measles ... : To which is annexed, A treatise on the same diseases by the celebrated Arabian physician, Arubeker Rhazes. The whole translated into English, under the author's inspection / by Thomas Stack.

  • Mead, Richard, 1673-1754
Date:
1748
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Credit: Discourse on the smallpox and measles ... : To which is annexed, A treatise on the same diseases by the celebrated Arabian physician, Arubeker Rhazes. The whole translated into English, under the author's inspection / by Thomas Stack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cond ftate. And there feldom happens a temperament in an infant or child, in which fuch a change can be made in a fmall time,, and without manifeft figns of it: as may be judged from their diet, which in infants is milk ; and in children, not milky, but their food is. ftronger, in proportion, than that of other ages, and more compounded. To which it may be added, that in thefe there is, after food, a greater motion of the humours. For thefe reafons, very few children go into life without this diffemper. Befides this, great alterations are made here, by different temperaments, manner of life, and habits ; as alfo, by the conffitution of the ambient air, and ftate of the blood, both as to quantity and quality : for in j fome this flow quicker, in others flower; in fome it abounds, in others it is deficient; in fome it is very bad, in others in a better condition. As to young men, whereas the change in their blood is already made, its matura¬ tion finifried, and the particles of moifture, which fhould caufe putrefadfion, are now 'exhaled hence it follows, that this difeafe cannot be generated in them, at leaft but very feldom, that is, in fuch, whofe blood ftill abounds with too much humidity, or [is very corrupt, with a violent inflamma¬ tion i or who, perhaps, when they were children,